Leonardo Royal Hotel Edinburgh

This is a large chain hotel aimed at business travellers and groups, so not one for foodies or luxury-seekers. But if you want a clean, pleasant place to rest your head in an accessible location where you can park your car but get around without it, this will comfortably fit the brief.

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Location

8/10

Not the most glamorous location in the city and don't expect views, but it's a winner if you want to park and walk. Haymarket Station – with rail, tram, airport and city bus connections – is a five-minute walk away and Princes Street, the Old Town and Edinburgh Castle, as well as Murrayfield Stadium and the Edinburgh Conference centre, are all no more than a 15-minute walk.

Style & character

7/10

Part of a rapidly expanding group, it's indisputably middle-market corporate. Bedrooms feature jolly generic striped carpets and a St Tropez tan colour scheme, with tweedy olive-green and heather accessories. Mind you, this all goes a bit off-piste in the reception/bar/restaurant area where outbreaks of monochrome and turquoise, rainbow-neon mood lighting and a couple of unfeasibly tall 'statement' wing-backed chairs in a startling tartan are further enhanced by competitive muzak.

Service & facilities

6/10

Read the website carefully; otherwise you may never know that there is parking (£10 a day), luggage storage and a laundry service. Nor will you be any the wiser about meal times, 24-hour room service or minibar prices. The good-natured staff may not be able to offer the information either, as they seem often overstretched by sudden influxes of groups.

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Rooms

7/10

Air-conditioned bedrooms feel bigger than many chain equivalents and have a work area for business travellers. Murals of Edinburgh and photographs of men in kilts on misty hillsides are handy if you wake up disoriented and add a bit of whimsical personality. All rooms have useful minifridges and safes, but you have to upgrade for a stocked minibar.

Wood-look bathrooms feature an oversize fuzzy photo of sheep on a croft – a diverting alternative to featureless white tile. 'Woman-friendly' rooms come with a make-up mirror, hot water bottle and a mini bottle of prosecco.

Food & drink

6/10

You can grab a drink in the cheerful open-plan bar, while Restaurant Vitruv serves a basic menu of items like burgers, fish and chips or mushroom risotto. Portions are enormous so you won't go hungry, but more attention wouldn't go amiss; it's not easy to make a Caesar salad stodgy, but they manage it.

Breakfast is self-service: either cooked Scottish breakfast or continental. Again, it's more quantity than quality.

Value for money

7/10

Double rooms from £69 in low season; and from £129 in high. Breakfast not included, costs £10. Free Wi-Fi.

Access for guests with disabilities?

There are 15 accessible rooms, but be specific about requirements when booking.

Family-friendly?

Cots are available, as are rooms with sofa beds. One child under six stays free of charge.